ARN – Amazon Resource Name

What defines a serverless system, main characteristics and how it operates

What are the types of serverless systems for computing, storage, queue processing, etc.

Why use serverless? Breakdown of the advantages of serverless over traditional server-centric infrastructure. Overview of the common use cases of serverless.

What are the challenges of serverless infrastructures and how to overcome them?

How systems can be reliable and the importance to cloud applications

What is a scalable system and how to handle increasing loads

Making systems easy to operate, manage and evolve

Learn the three basic concepts to build scalable and maintainable applications on serverless backends

The pros and cons of each architecture and insights to choose the best option for your projects

Battle-tested serverless patterns to make sure your cloud architecture is ready to production use

Strategies to compose functions into flexible, scalable and maintainable systems

Achieving loosely-coupled architectures with the asynchronous messaging pattern

Using message queues to manage task processing asynchronously

Asynchronous message and task processing with Pub/Sub

A software pattern to control workflows and state transitions on complex processes

What makes up a Lambda function?

What is AWS Lambda and how it works

Suitable use cases and advantages of using AWS Lambda

How much AWS Lambda costs, pricing model structure and how to save money on Lambda workloads

Learn the main pros/cons of AWS Lambda, and how to solve the FaaS development challenges

Main aspects of the Lambda architecture that impact application development

Quick guide for Lambda applications in Nodejs, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, C# / .NET

Different ways of invoking a Lambda function and integrating to other services

Building fault-tolerant serverless functions with AWS Lambda

Understand how Lambda scales and deals with concurrency

How to use Provisioned Concurrency to reduce function latency and improve overall performance

What are Lambda Layers and how to use them

What are cold starts, why they happen and what to do about them

Understand the Lambda retry mechanism and how functions should be designed

Managing AWS Lambda versions and aliases

How to best allocate resources and improve Lambda performance

What is DynamoDB, how it works and the main concepts of its data model

How much DynamoDB costs and its different pricing models

Query and Scan operations and how to access data on DynamoDB

Alternative indexing methods for flexible data access patterns

How to organize information and leverage DynamoDB features for advanced ways of accessing data

Different models for throughput capacity allocation and optimization in DynamoDB

Comparing NoSQL databases: DynamoDB and Mongo

Comparing managed database services: DynamoDB vs. Mongo Atlas

How does an API gateway work and what are some of the most common usecases

Learn what are the benefits or drawbacks of using APIGateway

Picking the correct one API Gateway service provider can be difficult

Types of possible errors in an AWS Lambda function and how to handle them

Best practices for what to log in an AWS Lambda function

How to log objects and classes from the Lambda application code

Program a proactive alerting system to stay on top of the serverless stack